Sample-pad of textile fabrics.



Patented Oct. l0, I899. v. nuu SAMPLE PAD 0F TEXTILE FABRICS.

(Application filed July 14, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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NE? YORK, N. Y.

SA MPLE-PAD OF TEXTILE. FABRICS SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent at. 634,673, dated October 10, 1899.

Application filed duly 14,1899.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VAOLA'V RUDA, a citizen of the United States, residingin the city of New York, in the borough of Manhattan and State of New Yorlchave invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sample-Pads of Textile Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

Cotton, woolen, and other textile fabrics were heretofore made up in sample-pads which were distributed to the trade and sent to customers. 'The edges of eachindividual piece of fabric were protected by means of an edge-binding, preferably made of silk. The samples were tied together by means of suitable fastening devices, so as to form a pad. The making up of these sample-pads, and especiallythe edge-lining of the same, was connected with considerable expense, as large numbers of such pad'shad to be made up for distribution.

The object of my invention is to furnish an improved sample-pad of textile fabrics in which the edge-binding of the individual piece of fabric is dispensed with and a simple and inexpensive mode of-fasteningthe pieces into a pad employed.

The invention consists of certain features of constructionand combinations of parts to be hereinafter described and then claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1- represents a perspective view of my improved sample-pad of textile fabrics. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section on line 2 2, Fig. 1'. Fig. 3 is a piece of one of the'samples, showing the edge-coating of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a number of samples of cotton, woolen, or other textile fabrics which are made upof the usual size-for instance, nine by four inchesand superposed one above the other and attached to a bottom piece of past-eboard B and to a block C,'which is glued or otherwise attached to the end of the bottom B, said bottom being extended in. the form of an angular extension B over the block, so as to cover the same. The said extension is stationary or substantially rigid with the bottom piece B, so as not to fold. The individualsamples are applied to a thin wire D, which is passed through the sides of the samples.

serial No 728,849. (No model.)

adjacent ends of the samples and by which the samples are strung up, so to say, along the edge of the block, so as to be held in position' one on top of the other, as shown. The ends of the wires D are secured on opposite sides of block 6 by pasting aband of flexible material Caround said block over said ends. It will be observed that the-edge of the extension B terminates just forward of the upper forward edge of the block, so that it projects beyond the join ts between the block and samples, thus hiding said joints and rendering the pad more sightly.

The edges of the samples instead of being bound by a suitable silk edging are provided with aprotectin ged ge-coatin g, which is made of cement, and a covering of gold-leaf or other suitable ornamental metal coating. To apply the coatings, a number of samples are com pactlypressed together in a suitable press and then coated together at the edges by cement, which enters between the fibers and binds them together. Over the cement coating of the edges before the same is dried is placed a layer of'gold-leaf or other suitable metallic leaf in case a different color or colors than gold are desired. After drying the samples are removed from the press, separated from each other, and then madeup in the form of pads in the manner before described. The gold or other metal-covered edge forms a suitable ornamentation of the edges of the sample, while the cement prevents unraveling and fraying of the edges, they being held intact even with considerable handling.

By the word edges is meant the edges strictly speaking, and not the upper or lower Consequently the extreme ends of the threads or yarns of which the samples are made will be impregnated and protected.

The advantages of my improved samplepad are, first, that the expensive binding of the individual samples is dispensed with and thereby a considerable saving in cost of the samples effected; secondly, that the method of fastening the samples to the end block of the pad savesnearly an inch of fabric on each individual sample, which forms a considerable saving in fabric, and, thirdly, that the samples made up in" a pad of my improved too form are more ornamental and attractive in appearance than those heretofore in use.

Having thus described my invention, I

, claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A sample-pad of textile fabrics, consist iug of a bottom piece, provided at one end with an angular fixed extension, projecting upwardly and inwardly therefrom, a block nearly filling the space formed by the extension, a number of samples superposed one above the other on said bottom piece, and strung upon one edge of said block, said extension terminating justforward of thejoints between the samples and block, substantially as set forth.

2. A sample-pad of textile fabrics, consist ing of a bottom piece, a number of super- 

